May 2018 - Real Wireless

Waveforms: tomorrow on trial

by Simon Fletcher | May 15, 2018 | Real Wireless blog

At Real Wireless, we tend to assume that our expertise will be called upon by a number of industry players as 5G throws up new challenges and competing ways of solving problems. However, even though most activity is still only at the trial stage, there’s no doubt that...

5G, Industry 4.0 and the future of British manufacturing

by Dr Abhaya Sumanasena | May 10, 2018 | 5G, Real Wireless blog

In the Nordic countries, there has been a recent surge in trials in 5G-enabled manufacturing. One notable trial combined ultra-low latency and high bandwidth aspects of 5G with machine learning to enhance production. Another demonstrated ways to produce blade...

5G: spectrum isn’t the only thing that could be shared

by Simon Fletcher | May 8, 2018 | 5G, Real Wireless blog

The Dynamic Spectrum Alliance (DSA) – a global, cross-industry alliance focused on increasing dynamic access to unused radio frequencies – held its Global Summit 2018 in London (on May 1-3). It took on a lot of issues and, in particular, raised the profile of spectrum...

Let’s chat about AI

by Simon Fletcher | May 4, 2018 | Real Wireless blog

The value of Artificial intelligence (AI) for mobile operators may be one of the less widely discussed uses of AI. It could, however, be considerable in areas like predicting demand patterns and anomalies in dense urban areas, proactive maintenance and improved...

Edge compute: time to open up

by Dr Abhaya Sumanasena | May 2, 2018 | Real Wireless blog

The combination of wireless and edge compute has a number of potential applications. Reducing the latency that would undermine the effectiveness of 5G connectivity could eventually permit 5G’s effective use in a number of applications. Industrial applications...

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C-RAN – all still up in the air?

by Simon Fletcher | Aug 27, 2020

C-RAN seems to have been a long time coming. I first started exploring the potential of C-RAN back in 2007. Since then there’s been a great deal of industry talk and thousands of pages of standards describing dozens of C-RAN architectures. And I’m still waiting. Cloud...

Can Satcoms at sea improve operations on land?

by Mike Walsh | Aug 27, 2020

We write a lot about the needs of industry and how LTE, Wi-Fi, DAS and 5G, incorporated into a private network, could improve logistics and security and underpin just-in-time operations for airports, sea-ports, factories, stadiums, malls or local government. But what...

Connected vehicles: The long and winding road

The automotive industry’s goal was for every new vehicle to be connected by 2022. Now, less than 18 months out, things are more or less on track. But on track for what? M2M vehicle connectivity is already widely available. This enables a vehicle to be connected to an...

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